different story. lindsey graham has actually invited rudy giuliani to come before the committee and essentially testify on what he learned doing sort of these secondary unofficial investigations into ukraine s involvement in 2016 and the server and all this jazz. and talk before that committee to discuss what he found essentially. because, you know, as we re speaking right now, michael horowitz, justice department ig is looking into it. reportedly is coming to a close in his investigation of how the fbi handled and whether they handled it properly, that getting a fisa warrant to surveil carter page. there s a lot going on. giuliani may go before senate judiciary. bernie sanders back home in vermont after suffering his heart attack, came down the front lawn and talked to the small group of reporters and embeds there.
and started worrying about defending and protecting american democracy in the 2020 election. i think when you look at the fact yesterday, and as i walked around the hill after the hearings and started seeing even democrats that had said they were not for impeachment start saying, wait a minute, this may change everything, i think the thunderbolt was what you just pointed out, joe. when all of a sudden mcconnell backs this $250 billion package and we re looking at the fact now that you have the russian interference as the election strategy for 2016 under serious investigation and implication, now we re possibly talking about the ukraine and we re talking about the i.g. saying some things of serious concern that no one knows what it is but could be involving looking into your possible opponents some kind of way or his son s
complaint became public. financial times reported 0 on this last week as well. so that information has been out. i ve got to believe most people on capitol hill have heard about this already. so there may be even more than i think what is clearly an extraordinarily inappropriate and dangerous act. yeah, i mean, urgent concern is not a term thrown around lightly as ken can tell you in the intelligence community. it s a legal threshold where congress has to investigate. they don t take this lightly. clearly by going to the justice department the intelligence officer displayed that they don t take it likely. this was a big deal, whatever this officer heard. but to cut through what we re talking about here, joe biden is the candidate that donald trump fears most, right, donny? so rudy giuliani has been in the ukraine for the last couple months fishing around for dirt on joe biden and his son hunter biden. so now you have the real possibility that the president of the united states on a p
donald trump took office. now, you know, correlation is not causation, but it s obvious to anyone who covers the intelligence community that there s a great angst in that community with the way that donald trump conducts himself and handles classified information and treats the intelligence community. and there s clearly an increased level of concern that i think is contributing to this flood of complaints to this hotline. and of course there are complaints that we ve heard, mika, where he actually gives sensitive intel from other countries to russia s foreign minister inside the white house. he s extraordinarily reckless with classified information. he s reckless with any information. that we know. that s what s so telling about this complaint. even whith that recklessness in sight, we have the i.g. talking about urgent information he has and that the acting dni has who,
republicans are now celebrating as it pertains to justice department i.g. decisions. but you have the i.g. trying to get the information to congress because it is urgent. he says it is urgent that it met that legal standard. and you have barr s attorney general barr s department of justice actively trying to stonewall that and to keep it from oversight committees that have a legal right to look at this information based on statutes. that inspector general, joe, michael atkinson is emerging as the hero of this whole saga. he s a trump appointee let s remember confirmed by the senate. he happens to be a career justice department official. he won an award for prosecuting a $20 million bribery scheme in 2012, and he reviewed this complaint, this whistleblower complaint and endorsed the idea that it met the definition, as